download: Download a package file from an URL

In choisy/mcdev: Contains Functions to Publish Blogs and Websites

Description

In case a raw data file is too big to be contained in a package, a solution consists in downloading that file after package installation when the file is needed for the first time. This is what the download function allows to do. It will downlaod the file from the provided URL and put it in the extdata directory of the provided package hierarchy, naming it using the name provided as an argument.

Usage

download(url, package, file, ...)

Arguments

url	character string containing the URL to download from.
package	character string containing the name of the package into which to put the downloaded file.
file	character string containing the name of the downloaded file should be given.
...	options passed to utils::download.file().

Author(s)

Marc Choisy

choisy/mcdev documentation built on May 27, 2019, 12:18 p.m.